ROME – Who is Paolo Signorelli? To begin with, who was he: the spokesperson for the Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida. Yes he is self-suspended “waiting to clarify the matter”. By “event” we mean the chats on Whatsapp with characters such as Fabrizio Piscitelli, known as Diabolik, head of Lazio ultras as well as right-wing extremist and drug trafficker killed in Rome on 7 August 2019. In those chats ended in the newspapers – scripta manent, also online – we read Signorelli happy for the acquittal of Elvis Demce, Albanian boss of the Capitoline underworld, of “their damn Jews”, a bit of scattered praise for black terrorists such as Valerio Fioravanti, Pierluigi Concutelli, Luigi Ciavardini and Mario Tuti. “Honor to them”, wrote Signorelli when he could not imagine that that immodest private individual would sooner or later become public on the eve of the European elections.
And so who is, was, was and was, Paolo Signorelli junior. By direct descent, grandson of Paolo Signorelli senior: black extremist grandfather, among the founders of the Centro Studi Ordine Nuovo sentenced in the first instance to three life sentences, then acquitted, but still finally convicted for subversive association and armed gang. Ended up in the plots of the investigations into the NAR, for the murders of judges Mario Amato and Vittorio Occorsio, but also for the Bologna massacre (his name appears 250 times among those papers).
Paolo junior is 38 years old and is described (from Repubblica, for example) in the magic circle of Arianna Meloni, the prime minister’s sister. He was head of the press office for the candidate for mayor of Rome Enrico Michetti three years ago. Before climbing to a national level with Lollobrigida after the Frecciarossa stop on call. He was also spokesperson for the FdI group leader in the Chamber, Tommaso Foti.
Before dedicating himself to institutional communications he also worked at News Mediaset, AdnKronos and il Tempo, with football forays into Lazio for Radio Incontro Olympia.
For life and education, a continuous curve to the right. Including that of Lazio. As an ultra, he cultivates his closeness with Diabolik, translated from the chats and from the comments that he now says he doesn’t remember but certainly – he reiterates – “as distant as ever from me, from my thoughts and my feelings”.